Sunflower Soaring Foundation

Analysis

Sunflower Soaring Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Wichita, KS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2013, 13 years ago. Its declared purposes cover recreation and sports, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Sunflower Soaring Foundation reported income of $79k and spending of $76k, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $286k to $79k (-72%), an average of -27% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 60%. Over the whole period it spent 62% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Sunflower Soaring Foundation sits at the 37th percentile: it is larger than about 37% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 31st percentile, and in the 29th percentile within KS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Foundation for Children and Youth with Diabetes ($79k), Lemont Athletic Association NFP ($79k) and Little League Baseball Inc ($79k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 25% and program service revenue 20% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.4m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $2.4m.